{"id":49,"date":"2018-04-20T15:46:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T15:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/katherineokumu\/?p=49"},"modified":"2018-05-07T16:31:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T16:31:26","slug":"what-are-the-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/katherineokumu\/2018\/04\/20\/what-are-the-words\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are The Words?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou seem like someone who doesn\u2019t <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

know they\u2019re beautiful\u201d <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Are you someone with words to<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

show them we\u2019re beautiful? \u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hearts that are shaped the same<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

and souls that are the same shade<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

What are the words to describe<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

this love affair; beautiful?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The mountains rise and fall with<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Every flicker of approval<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Whose is the language that forms<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

this love prayer, beautiful? <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Lips spin a musical doctrine <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

of freedom and love<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Can dancing syllables turn<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

this love\u2019s despair beautiful?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Humbled from a mother\u2019s womb<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Where I myself conceived<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Am now exhaling revolution,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Mutually we prepare: beautiful.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This post is a ghazal, that invokes the classic context of love, marriage, and romance into devotion for Allah. The incorporation of this theme reflects Sufism and roots in seventh-century Arabia. In most\u00a0ghazals,\u00a0the Beloved is used as a metaphor for God or the spiritual master of the poet. poet’s spiritual master. This intense divine\u00a0love is found in Sufism particularly.\u00a0The drunkenness and erotic-like symbolism in ghazals are in direct conflict with rules about piety and sanctity. The rules of the state are circumvented in this poetry, making the ghazal quite political in its rejection of rules utilized to control the public.\u00a0 \u00a0This poem is more explicitly utilizing a romantic of physical experience to replicate a relationship with God. I found this to be an incredibly\u00a0profound way to comprehend the intensity and power of God’s love for humanity.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cYou seem like someone who doesn\u2019t know they\u2019re beautiful\u201d Are you someone with words to show them we\u2019re beautiful? \u00a0   Hearts that are shaped the same and souls that are the same shade What are the words to describe this love affair; beautiful?   The mountains rise and fall with Every flicker of approval […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/katherineokumu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/katherineokumu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/katherineokumu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/katherineokumu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/katherineokumu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/katherineokumu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/katherineokumu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/katherineokumu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/katherineokumu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/katherineokumu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}